
Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French at Vanderbilt University where she directs the Callie House Research Center for the Study of Global Black Cultures and Politics. She is also the Vice Provost for Arts, Libraries and Global Engagement.
A comparative Europeanist and scholar of women, gender, and African Diaspora Studies, her areas of academic work include comparative Black European studies, slavery and the Atlantic world, diaspora literary / cultural history, and Black women's studies. She is author/editor of 15 books and three novels. She is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, editor of the journal Palimpsest, one of the series editors of "Blacks in the Diaspora" (Indiana University Press, 2007-2015), and co-series editor of "Philosophy and Race" (SUNY Press). She served on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association (2014-2018).